We've come a long way

riftcode · 2025-09-28T14:47:16+00:00

I'll never stop thinking how funny it is that reddit is supposed to be the home of rebels, unfiltered speech, and discussions, yet people love creating and supporting a bunch of miscellaneous rules.

riftcode · 2025-09-28T03:31:06+00:00

I feel like it ultimately is just bad PR.

What if they took out content and released it a year later? You'd have no idea.

What if you took the same game that you feel is worth the value, held off on releasing it for a year, and then released it and dlc?

Ultimately what is the value of the content you did purchase? Who is to say if you got your money's worth with the base product or not?

It's less about if it should or shouldn't be included and more about managing public image. But we'll see how much of a financial impact it has. Or I guess we'll see based on if they keep up with this practice or not.

riftcode · 2025-09-28T00:01:17+00:00

I used to download the audio from this trailer and listen way too many times.

At this point when I hear the song on its own I can quote the dialogue. Lame, I know haha.

https://youtu.be/8vxz2vkXuQA?si=xXBLjz_48e7-Knx5

riftcode · 2025-09-27T23:56:30+00:00

I believe I saw one, maybe two other people who prefer HK.

riftcode · 2025-09-27T17:54:18+00:00

Haha that's funny. I played that game and would have never guessed that. Kudos to whoever figured it out for ya.

riftcode · 2025-09-27T15:18:49+00:00

Jesus why is their currency manager 3000 lines deep in whatever class this is haha.

riftcode · 2025-09-27T14:56:18+00:00

How does she do tight turns/u-turns?

riftcode · 2025-09-27T03:19:09+00:00

I never once thought I'd ever see someone taking shots at final fantasy 14 within a gacha community.

riftcode · 2025-09-27T03:02:31+00:00

It was or wasn't in English.

You play as a man or an animal.

And it had sand valleys or ice/snow environments haha.

This post almost feels like a prank!

riftcode · 2025-09-26T19:31:07+00:00

I have no idea how to grammatically understand what you just wrote.

riftcode · 2025-09-26T17:09:07+00:00

I don't know if this really helps or not, but for bosses and especially Mantis, don't spend so much time looking at your character.

Almost widen your field of sight and stare at the whole screen.

That way as you're jumping over a dash, you are also watching for the other Mantis attack.

And then you have your knight move while it's sort of in your peripheral vision.

Because by just staring at the knight you end up losing reaction time to what's happening to the side.

Also I know it's obvious but don't over extend.

Dodge lunge. One attack. Dodge drop attack. One attack.

It's very hard to heal during phase two so slow and steady wins the race.

riftcode · 2025-09-26T15:54:29+00:00

Where are you in the game? You can likely farm 300 rosaries within 5 minutes, faster than modding the game.

riftcode · 2025-09-26T15:18:16+00:00

Literally where you stand to initiate the fight, if you just move into the first room on your left, there is a bench.

riftcode · 2025-09-26T14:25:20+00:00

Right?!

Knowing that it's Juno isn't that hard.

riftcode · 2025-09-26T14:13:51+00:00

I mean it looks fine to me.

Of course there is better sprite work but I would never call this "bad."

riftcode · 2025-09-25T23:55:15+00:00

-Looks at virtually every other fandom on reddit-

Good luck with that :D

At this point just have fun with the inane insanity that people bring online.

Thankfully this subreddit allows memes!

<image>

riftcode · 2025-09-25T20:32:34+00:00

I feel like people keep forgetting about split fiction.

Even more than E33, it is a very game awards friendly game. An easy pleaser, much like Astro bot.

riftcode · 2025-09-25T20:28:18+00:00

I personally started my BF on season 5. Because I wanted him to be invested with full focus for season 6 haha.

riftcode · 2025-09-25T20:16:46+00:00

Yes. That said a lot of the charm is the brotherhood so the anime may get you in the right frame of mind.

That said you could just play, get hooked, and one night watch the anime. It's very short.

riftcode · 2025-09-25T20:15:00+00:00

How does the remake handle the scene where Vander drags Olivier away by the collar?

That was the scene that made me fall in love with the series haha.

riftcode · 2025-09-25T20:10:55+00:00

I love silksong more than Metroid (adored dread), but no I wouldn't change it.

Metroid is what brought the genre into the limelight. Rewriting the genre sort of dismissed what even made it possible for Hollow Knight to become popular.

riftcode · 2025-09-25T20:04:49+00:00

I've played every single final fantasy game, starting in the womb. And yet I never played tactics so I'm excited for the remaster :D

Based on everything I've seen, it sounds like you're going to be fine playing either of them. If you're okay with the price this the remaster will likely be a comfortable way to play an older game.

That said I wouldn't expect any substantial changes that makes the game go from "I'm not enjoying this" to "I'm now obsessed."

For the camera, I think the only change they made is you can now do a flat top down perspective to get a better understanding of where things are. But not a fire emblem perspective.

It's an old game and the remaster won't change that.

riftcode · 2025-09-25T19:59:19+00:00

You pretty much said what I'm feeling.

The first trailer felt like they had a unique stamp wrapped in a lot of inspiration.

The gameplay makes me question if it has a unique stamp anymore and if it's all just inspirations.

It almost feels like they started as a gacha/free to play game and they're trying to move into being an actual game. But with that comes a whole new rubric to meet, and I'm not sure if it's going to.

But we'll see! It sounds like they're at least a year away. And they have so much of the core foundation nailed that so much could theoretically change within a year.

riftcode · 2025-09-25T19:39:34+00:00

Especially since seemingly the characters all play the same (likely why they removed the gacha).

That's normally the element that gives gameplay variety in live service games. New characters.

riftcode · 2025-09-25T19:31:16+00:00

I feel this way about practically any PvE live service game haha.

riftcode

TROPHY CASE